There won’t be much state football poll movement this week as very few highly-ranked teams suffered defeats. The exception is in Class 4A, where three of the top five absorbed losses.
No. 2 7A St. Thomas Aquinas dealt No. 4 8A Miramar its second loss...

Usually, meetings with editorials boards are held so visitors can explain their point of view on an issue or proposal and, in doing so, persuade. It didn't quite work out that way at this week's meeting with the person heading an effort to build a stadium near

Who says college kids have all the fun?
I've spent spring breaks hunting for the "perfect" Sand Dollar on a Sanibel Island beach, watching major leaguers at spring training games, along with my little leaguers, and exploring the Grand Canyon...

Here's a postscript to my Ocala road trip: If you venture into the downtown business district on Silver Springs Boulevard, make sure to look inside The Paddock Room at Charisma Boutique, an almost museum-worthy collection of prints, lithographs, antique huntin

Often times, we tend to embellish someoneâs legacy when they die. The stories grow bolder and better. That isnât necessary with Mike Cuellar. Cuellar, one of the greatest players in Baltimore Orioles history, passed away Friday afternoon at Orlan

Â By JAY COHEN AP Sports Writer NEW YORK (AP) â Daniel Flores handed a digital camera to a friend and grabbed a place next to Babe Ruth's monument in the famous park beyond the center-field wall at Yankee Stadium. This was a no-brainer for the

Ohio State lost one of its biggest fans today with the news of George Steinbrenner dying at age 80 after suffering a massive heart attack. Steinbrenner was known best as being the owner of the New York Yankees but his love for Ohio State was always an importan

This just in from U.S. Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., once best-known for having pitched a perfect game for the Detroit Tigers Philadelphia Phillies but these days better-known for his seemingly chronic case of foot-in-mouth disease. According to The Hill, the passi

After flipping through the newspapers and surfing the web for the two weeks of news I've missed from vacation/honeymoon, July 2010Â so far could be one of the most interesting summers of sports news of the new millennium. Is this an exaggeration? Let's re

* – denotes a public school set to open/add athletics in the 2011-12 school year. # – denotes the projected population for an existing public school that will have its student population altered due to the opening of a new public school, or a recen

After a great region weekend for the area, it looks like I will have 90 wrestlers to keep tabs on starting Friday in Lakeland. Here's a list of the first round matches: (Remember, you can get all the results here and in our wrestling section online as they hap

MESA, Ariz. — Baseball's investigation into tampering charges against the Cubs in the hiring of Joe Maddon will be over before opening day, Commissioner Rob Manfred said Monday.
Nearly four months after the Rays claimed the Cubs contacted Maddon while he...

Roger Maris, Mickey Mantle, Reggie Jackson and other baseball greats turned up routinely around town when Fort Lauderdale hosted the New York Yankees' spring training.
Broward County's 34-year link to one of baseball's most storied teams ended in 1995,...

One of the great legacies of George Steinbrenner is the Yankee Silver Shield Foundation, which the late Yankees' owner created in 1982 to fund the education for children of police officers and firefighters in the tri-state area who are killed in the...